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...than 200 Madrid commuters struck on March 11. Three days later Spanish voters tossed out the ruling party allied with the U.S. in the war in Iraq. Incoming Socialist Party Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who called the Iraq occupation a "fiasco," reiterated a campaign promise to pull Spain's 1,300 peacekeepers out of Iraq by June unless the U.N. takes over operations there. In Iraq insurgents attacked several hotels on the eve of the war's first anniversary, just when the U.S. hoped to talk up Iraq's successes. The bombings were believed to be the work...
Nobody thought Islamic terrorism would happen in Spain. Much of Europe is known to be a logistical base for the militants but rarely a theater of operations. "We knew there were Islamist networks in Spain, even knew who most of the people involved were," says a French counterterrorism investigator. "But we had no idea these networks and cells were operational in planning and staging attacks...
...videotapes on bin Laden and jihad and the telephone numbers of three members of the Soldiers of Allah cell run by Syrian-born Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, known as Abu Dahdah. In November 2001 Spanish authorities jailed Yarkas, believed to be the leader of al-Qaeda's cells in Spain, for allegedly helping in the preparation and implementation of the 9/11 attacks...
...point, he shared an apartment in Madrid with Abdelaziz Benyaich, one of those arrested for his alleged connection with the bombings. Morocco last week was again looking for links between Zougam and the Casablanca attacks. He had been in Morocco in advance of the strike and returned to Spain just three weeks before it occurred. But so far, says an official, "the only connection involves background and ideology...
...political background, it wasn’t unexpected,” said Daniel J. Epstein, a graduate student in political science. Garzon served from 1993 to 1994 as a member of the Socialist Party in the lower house of the Spanish Cortes—the national legislature in Spain...